Visionaries are talking about change; it is in the air … everywhere! Recently, Jere Stocks, President of the Washington Adventist Hospital in Maryland, spoke of…

I absolutely love the title of JJ Michael’s latest novel. I do not read fiction often; however, each one of her last three titles represents…

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti – I am not sure why I feel so astounded that The Shrine, Fela’s club, is thriving on Broadway. Perhaps it is the…

“All stages of life are marked by meetings under the conversation tree” – Joseph Ki-Zerbo. Every culture, every major piece of writing highlights and celebrates…

We know that cells have their own intelligence, capable of operating in organisms in both cooperative and adverse ways. I once read that each human…

I expected to be alone for the day – touring London on the big red, open top, hop-on, and hop-off bus.The last time I actually…

Feeling your way, finding your rhythm takes time when you are facing something new. We have to propel our way forward, get some movement going,…

In my travels, I have seen many historic sites that chronicle the rise and fall of great civilizations – sometimes we know what happened, other…

I do not claim to be a photographer, though I have a newfound pleasure in capturing nature, odd pieces and the simple and exotic experiences…

I have never been a Girl Scout…until last week, well, sort of! Many of us volunteer our time – year round – to make a…

It was a beautiful, striking sight – and because the sun does look like it is falling, I could hear a panicked Chicken Little declare,…

Take a good look at the word “mindlessness” – does it have a negative or positive ring to you? Imagine for a minute a space…

As a young student in Uganda, one of the many poems we were required to recite was “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is…

Being in the driver’s seat requires both a steady hand and one flexible enough to adjust one’s navigation plan to accommodate the inevitable bumps in…

Most of us have run into the phrase that states we must have a “burning desire” for what we want to achieve in life. In…

Are you ever looking from the outside, trying to figure out or reach for something on the inside… or vice versa? Why are we rarely…

I love good, let your hair down, real fun. So, a couple of weekends ago, I was delighted to have an opportunity to speak before…

Is the core that much different from the outside? Is one a reflection or piece of the other? A few weeks back, I enjoyed discussing…

The more you look at some things, the less they seem to make sense. Our youngest son just graduated from high school at TASIS, England…

I attended my first red carpet, film premiere night two weeks ago. Except, it was not Hollywood, it was “Nollywood” and I was in Lagos,…